"You've got red on you" - Shaun of the dead (2004)

It's been 6 years since I first saw this film and I know it inside out. And before I'd seen it I knew the actors from off the telly pretty well too. It had a matey feel, it was familiar and it showed Britain Britain Britain off, just as it is in the real.

Shaun is a bit of a loser, stuck in a rut. A rubbish boyfriend, rubbish son. After getting dumped by his girlfriend he becomes determined to sort his life out and prove himself. Luckily for him, the whole population has started turning in to zombies. The dead are waking up and attacking the living!! Nothing like a crisis to bring people together.

At first they don't see the horror all around them. Most people they come in to contact with are zombified anyway. Expressionless commuters, colleagues and family members. It isn't until Ed utters the haunting words, "There is a girl in the garden" that they get their first glimpse. After having to kill the zombie girl they retreat back inside to watch events unfold on the news, just like we all do when there is a global catastrophe. But here is Shaun's chance to show his girlfriend there is more to him.

Never has a RomZomCom, as it is self proclaimed, been so accurately set, so well balanced between smart, scary and a little sexy. It made you feel like you could do anything. No matter how crap your life is right now, just given one opportunity, you can make things happen and change things. Would I go out whacking zombies over the head? Maybe. I don't have a cricket bat but I do have a very big vacuum cleaner that I'm certain would do the job.